[Info-vax] ChatGPT solved it for me, again...

[Simon Clubley]

On 2023-02-20, Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se> wrote:
> On 2023-02-17 15:16, Simon Clubley wrote:
>> On 2023-02-17, Arne Vajhøj <arne at vajhoej.dk> wrote:
>>>
>>> strcspn will stop when it reach the terminating null byte.
>>>
>> 
>> Are you sure about that ?
>> 
>> https://linux.die.net/man/3/strcspn
>> 
>> There's no mention of stopping at a null and no mention of what the
>> return value is when the byte is not found within the string if it
>> were to stop at a terminating null.
>
> Quoting the man-page I have locally:
>
>       The strcspn() function spans the initial part of the null-terminated
>       string s as long as the characters from s do not occur in the null-
>       terminated string charset (it spans the complement of charset). 
> In other
>       words, it computes the string array index of the first character of s
>       which is also in charset, else the index of the first null character.
>
>

BSD ?

That's what the Linux version should say. :-(

The way the Linux version is written, it came across as another gets()
style function, and given that someone at some time thought it was a
good idea to add gets() to the C RTL...

Simon.

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